The month of January is going to be similar to last month's ELA work ... we are going to be working on more constructed responses. One notable difference will be that we will not be working on the work samples for Writing and for Math on the same day. Below is a tentative schedule for the month of January:

UPDATED 1/12/13 1:23 pmWeek of January 6: Guided PracticePassage: Black Beauty- I will walk the students through the pre-writing process - do together.

Week of January 13: Write response for Black Beauty (was started last week). 5th graders that attend on Tuesday will be starting the work on the Black Beauty passage, and they will be writing their response next week, the week of January 20th. The Black Beauty passage will count as their January Work Sample (Tuesday students only).

Week of January 20: Work-Sample Day!(Not due until the following week, but we will be doing it this week at the LC)- For the work sample, the students will be given a passage to read, and a question to answer. Each student will be given 45 minutes to complete the prompt. This will be collected at the end of the session.

Tuesday students: Writing the Black Beauty response.Wednesday students: Passage will be given to them on Wednesday, 1/22/14 during class.

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